Specs
Formats and requirements
Vesqen plays local lossless and compressed audio on Android 9.0 or later. Format support depends on your phone’s decoders; strict USB DAC output has separate requirements. These details describe the current release; check each release’s notes for changes.
Requirements
- Android
- 9.0 or later
- Strict USB output
- Android 14 or later, a phone that opens the bit-perfect path, and a USB DAC with a matching mixer profile
- Network
- Only for optional usage statistics, device report uploads and update checks; playback and the library never use it
Audio formats
- Lossless
- FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF; 16, 24 and 32-bit integer PCM
- Lossy
- MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus
- Extensions
- .flac .alac .m4a .wav .aif .aiff .mp3 .aac .ogg .opus
- Decoding
- Android’s and the phone’s own decoders through Media3, so some phones may not play every format
Output
- System output
- Android’s normal output; works with the speaker, wired headphones, USB and Bluetooth
- Strict USB output
- Android 14’s official bit-perfect mixer API; stops playback with a reason if a condition fails
- Chain log
- Records the source file, decoder, app processing, AudioTrack and route while playing
Library
- Sources
- Android’s media library, or folders you add
- Browse
- Albums, artists, folders, genres and playlists
- Sort
- Title, artist, album, recently added, recently played, most played
- Search
- By title, artist or album
- Play
- Queue, shuffle and repeat, favorites
Install package
- Release
- APK on GitHub Releases; the app finds new versions and installs them after you confirm. Google Play once Google approves it
- Signing certificate SHA-256
- 74:3E:96:FC:B7:1D:C5:81:88:49:68:19:A0:01:A2:7C:D8:8D:90:91:62:C5:AE:92:9C:87:BF:A2:9A:B8:62:93
- Languages
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese
- License
- Apache 2.0; the source code is public on GitHub